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Arts & Entertainment looks back at 2025

Year saw local creatives shine on canvas, on the stage – even on the screen

DATE: Dec 25, 2025 | CATEGORY: Arts and Entertainment

Filling seats: Local and regional theaters balance plays in each season

A recent article in The New York Times noted that local and regional American theaters, even after recovering somewhat after the epidemic, are struggling to fill seats. The focus of the arti...

DATE: Dec 24, 2025 | CATEGORY: Arts and Entertainment

An American parable: Merely Players revisits ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’

Sold-out show runs through the weekend in Durango

DATE: Dec 11, 2025 | CATEGORY: Arts and Entertainment

Tom Stoppard, playwright who won an Oscar for ‘Shakespeare In Love,’ dies at 88

LONDON – British playwright Tom Stoppard, a playful, probing dramatist who won an Academy Award for the screenplay for 1998’s “Shakespeare In Love,” has died. He was 88. In a statement Satur...

DATE: Nov 29, 2025 | CATEGORY: Arts and Entertainment

Durango High School Troupe 1096 opens season with ‘Once Upon a Mattress’

Year kicks off with performances starting next week

DATE: Oct 30, 2025 | CATEGORY: Arts and Entertainment

San Juan Circus going to great heights

Aerialists to perform ‘A Book of Spells’ on Halloween

DATE: Oct 23, 2025 | CATEGORY: Arts and Entertainment

Review: Merely Players mounts a ‘Hamlet’ for our time

‘That’s the brilliance of Shakespeare. He gives us everything’

DATE: Oct 10, 2025 | CATEGORY: Arts and Entertainment

Pagosa’s Thingamajig Theatre Company hosts ‘Master Class’

New production running now to Nov. 16

DATE: Oct 3, 2025 | CATEGORY: Arts and Entertainment

Paula Poundstone: ‘Hopefully my show is an animated spaceship’

Comedian heading back to Community Concert Hall at Fort Lewis College

DATE: Sep 25, 2025 | CATEGORY: Arts and Entertainment

A fable for our time: DART mounts ‘Spitfire Grill’

Production at Durango Arts Center runs through Aug. 31

DATE: Aug 20, 2025 | CATEGORY: Arts and Entertainment

Ryan Speedo Green triumphs in first outing as Wagner’s god in ‘Die Walküre’

Santa Fe Opera House stages show through Aug. 21

DATE: Aug 6, 2025 | CATEGORY: Arts and Entertainment

Immerse yourself with Secret Circus Society

Performing arts collective to put on summer series

DATE: Jul 17, 2025 | CATEGORY: Arts and Entertainment

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